Moss v. Hinds
Supreme Court of Vermont
. TRESPASS for taking a pair of oxen and seven cows. The defendant plead the general issue, and three special pleas justify, ing the taking as collector of a school district.
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. TRESPASS for taking a pair of oxen and seven cows. The defendant plead the general issue, and three special pleas justify, ing the taking as collector of a school district. The pleas averred the organization and existence of school district No. 8 in Addison; the application and warning for, and the holding of a school district meeting on the 22d of October, 1844; the adjournment of the meeting from time to time to the first Monday, being the second day of December, 1844; that at that adjourned meeting a tax was voted; that “ Aaron Hinds, William T. Whitford and Alanson Norton, who were then…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, at the circuit session in June, by
Isham, J.
The pleadings in this case raise,the single inquiry *194whether the tax mentioned in the several pleas in bar was legally-assessed. On a former hearing of this case it was held that to assess a tax was to fix and ascertain, in due proportion, the specific amount to be paid by each person liable to pay taxes; and that in the assessment of a school district tax, the amount was to be ascertained by the prudential committee from the vote of the district - and the grand list. The averments in the pleas in bar, which are…
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